#PCOS

Question I’ve only seen once in my life and now it’s rolling around in my head long after I lost the post.

Why isn’t PCOS counted as intersex?

It basically boils down to “my body thinks I’m a guy so I end up with a bunch of altered things about my body and appearance because of it”

Like, I didn’t even have a very abnormal testosterone count but I did have the following:

- Body couldn’t decide if it wanted periods

- Deep voice (mostly natural, voice training via music barely affected it)

- Birth control did jack shit to fix it (abnormal reactions to BC are seemingly common with PCOS)

- Patches of skin that are rough/calloused in places where the average person wouldn’t think of (sternum)

- (This one could be genetics but I’m throwing it in here anyways) More masculine shaped body (broad shoulders, weird fat distribution that didn’t fully align to either side)

I’m not saying 100% this is an intersex thing, I’m just curious where the line between normal afab condition and you’re fucking intersex is, y'know?

Anyways if someone has input here that they can explain well, hit me up, imma go draw something for my partners and hope it’s mostly done by Tuesday.

having PCOS sucks. WHY AM I STILL CRAVING FOR FOOD 💔

“You’re fat and hairy and masculine because of PCOS and there’s nothing we can do about that” okay❤️ yay❤️

trying my luck, has anyone here been forced to skip out nearly a whole pack of birth control pills because they missed three days in a row and now their ob-gyn recommended that they have to wait for their period to come before resuming the pills, but you’re kinda going insane because you rely on those pills for your acne and you’re scared of breaking out really bad, and also you’re experiencing really awful headaches for days that may or may not be related to you missing those pills and god everything is so out of whack i just want to ENJOY my weekend but i can’t if i’m gonna keep feeling like this, fuck my LIFE. anyway, any advice on how to survive the next few weeks

I don’t like PCOS, someone @ me if they find a cure

Genuine question, does having PCOS mean you’re intersex?

I feel stupid for having the need to explain myself but where else I can yap about myself if not on my own blog.

i identify as transmasc because I am trans: I don’t feel like the assigned gender at my birth (female). I never really felt like what I was supposed to be, even when my mum as a kid didn’t force me to wear pink, or forbid me to play with hotwheels, or when as a teen I decided to try very hard to conform and be the girl society expected me to be.

what is probably more surprising, is that to fit the societal feminine ideal, I needed to basically undergo forms of transitioning. I needed to take progesterone to have a regular menstrual cycle and to counterbalance my “too high” testosterone levels. and I needed to depilate so much to fight my hirsutism (I hate that such a thing even exists as a medical term -_-). I went through all the laser depilating sessions that are supposed to make your hair never come back and, well, let’s just say it didn’t change anything for me. which I am glad for now.

that’s the thing. not doing any “trans stuff” I am further from what a “woman” is supposed to be by the society standards. yet the doctors here in my godforsaken country still tried to “fix me” like it’s a disease that needs fixing…. (I am aware of the dangers of endometrium cancer btw and I carefully keep track of everything. tho I wish I could just get rid of my stupid uterus but that’s apparently illegal 🙄) like loads of trans people are not begging for all the possibilities of transition they could possibly get and are denied again and again. just because they want it for the “opposite” gender. just because of something someone assigned when they were tiny barely developed babies.

I constantly get called he/him by strangers randomly. I had been kicked off from women’s toilets as a kid. speaking a very gendered language forced me to be used to referring to myself with she/her even though I get queasy feeling in my stomach almost every time I do.

identifying as transmasc gives me the freedom of being masculine effortlessly with the underlining of saying: yes I am trans. i don’t fit the idea of gender and i am tired of trying to fit it. would I want to be a man? maybe.. I don’t know. depends on the day probably. I wish I was born with a dick. I don’t think I would want to be any different otherwise. being nonbinary is what I like to think I would still be.

Hello I’m Kaleesi, or Keke! I’m a hs student looking and researching potential jobs for the future👍🏽 I’m interested in epidemiology and endocrinology, specifically chronic disease epidemiology and endocrinology research! As someone w/ PCOS, a common chronic illness, I’m interested in a career that will help advance research about it! This is a blog mostly about what i just said above, but there will also be kind of a mix of all my interests here too bcs im too lazy to make another blog🫠

Ngl as someone with PCOS I always get amused at those (overall beneficial let’s be clear!) “carbs aren’t the enemy” posts because like, they are for me 😅

Like if eating bread hurts then it’s probably bad!

yeah doing research on disabilities and talking to doctors is great but i really don’t have time to have hashimoto’s or fibromyalgia right now. i’m busy with my several other disabling physical and mental conditions. i want to talk to doctors because i feel like there’s something going on other than pcos but im so busy rn that having additional illnesses feels like a liability

I say “Yeah I don’t really want to go on birth control or hormone fixers at the moment because all they really do are make me have a normal period and make it so I can get pregnant, and I have no wants or intentions of having either of those so theirs not much of a reason to do that at the moment other than maybe weight loss, and theirs not even the full guarantee thatll happen, and could backfire and make it worse, or even completely change my personality if we get really unlucky”

And she hears “ Oh I dOnT wAnNa TaKe HoRmOnE mEdS bEcAuSe I aM a FiLtHy Tr*nNy AnD i DoNt WaNnA lOsE mY tEsToStErOnE ”

Ugh

Can someone just kill one of us already so I don’t have to deal with her

i hate pcos because my mental health is doing so good right now and i’m genuinely content but my body needs to find another way to torture me so my stomach and joints and back are conspiring against me

yknow i just saw a post by someone who also has pcos complaining about having to diet to get their period and it never occurred to me there’s people out there actively trying to still get their period regularly with pcos. not having my period is like the singular positive of pcos i can’t fathom trying to get it more

Random, but shoutout to the radiologist who did my last scan, who looked me directly in the pimply, hairy face and said to me, “things like acne and hirsutism can be signs of PCOS - I’m not sure if you have those.” I hope you get a raise soon <3

Tw: period talk, blood n gore (duh)

man u could squirt me all day long and I still never run dry call me guini’s ketchup bottle

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I CUM BLOOD

FROM MY ERECTION

(the ‘erection’ being the massive mounds my womb seens to have built cause wtf is this gore shit I’d rather listen to goreshit)

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My massive period making me remind myself of that one Iron Warrior OC who through tzeentch fuckery got turned into a woman astartes. Btw wouldn’t it be so fucking cool if female sm came out and they all were warp fuckery csms? Yes. Yeeeeeeeeeees or Fabuis’ weird female space marine experiments finally saw the light of screen time DO IT GW I BEG OF YOU AS LONG AS IT’S NOT LOYALIST FEMALE SMS EVEN THE MOST SALTY CANNOT TALK SHIT ABOUT IT BEING NOT LORE FRIENDLY RAAAAH

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I BLEED IT OUT

TAKE IT DEEPER JUST TO THROW IT AWAY

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Little red riding good by Cupcakke placement (obligatory)

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Look child it’s not your time to exist yet

I’m not redy to be a mom yet

And besides

WHERE’S MY MAN HUH

I NEED SPERM TO PROCREATE

AND YET MY WOMB DOESN’T RECOGNIZE THAT I AIN’T GETTING ANY

it only tries to make a nest

sheds it every month

devestating me for a few days in the process.

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I wanted to rip my womb out once because of em

Then I got diagnosed with PCOS and am on contraception

I don’t get the PCOS belly anymore (literally looks like a water baloon belly. To most having it it is N O T sexy because all sorts of gastrointestinal issues, massive changes in how clothes fit and just as if you’re about to burst. It sucks.

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pain bleeding discomfort moodiness and more pain. At least it’s not unbearable anymore but holy this needed to go out

my obgyn’s office just called me to tell me they got my pelvic mri results. they then proceed to tell me that my doctor wants to see me because of new “developments” with my pcos (•́ ᴖ •̀)

Uh oh, I have an obsession with chocolate recently. I have PCOS and a family history of diabetes so I am struggling to stop it, but can’t really seem to… :(

the tricky thing about being chronically ill is that other people don’t recognize “i’m sleepy :/“ as a valid excuse to cancel :///